Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we are talking about Mad Men, the TV show that ran from 2007 to 2015, created by Matthew Weiner. I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, Trisha Arand.

Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner.

Hello, hello.

And Alex Cayetros.

Hi.

So Mad Men is one of my favorite TV shows, and I've been wanting to talk about it for a very long time.

So we just released a video on Mad Men that is talking about subtext and text and kind of symbolic imagery and how the show uses all these things to

create these layers of meaning. And just to give everyone a heads up, if you haven't seen Mad Men,

we're going to talk about everything. So if you want a completely spoiler-free experience,

this might not be the episode for you. But as Alex has pointed out in our Slack, I feel like

this isn't a TV show

that you can like super ruin via spoilers,

but that's up to you.

Anyway, so yeah, Mad Men is great,

and there's so much to talk about writing wise,

and people had been requesting it

since the beginning of the channel.

But Tricia, you were the one that pitched this video and this topic.

Why did you want to talk about Mad Men and this topic

in particular? Well, like you, Mad Men is one of my favorite TV shows ever. And for me, that's

really saying something. I don't have a lot of excitement around TV, especially back when this

first started where you actually had to watch it every week. And it was

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